If the former, then it's not a problem...but it does support AP's point that information is transmitted even when a full story isn't.
Mad Ivan lives in London.
July 7, 2006, I woke up in the middle of the night and for some odd reason went to my computer and turned on Free Republic. There were big headlines on the first post, that the London tube had been hit by a terrorist bombing. The thread was about fifteen minutes old, no other news source had it yet, and my son, who was waiting impatiently at the train station in London, had no idea what the delay was. He was late because he overslept, and it was his last day of his internship. I was able to reach him by cell phone before he even left the station. He had no idea of what was going on, but I did because Mad Ivan knew and posted it on Free Republic, that fast. I have no idea how Mad Ivan even knew because they weren’t saying what the problem was in London, yet. All they said was that they were closing the trains, please go home.